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SUBMITTER: Hayden BY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2847481 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayden Benjamin Y BY Platt Michael L ML
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20100301 9
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is thought to play a critical role in forming associations between rewards and actions. Currently available physiological data, however, remain inconclusive regarding the question of whether dACC neurons carry information linking particular actions to reward or, instead, encode abstract reward information independent of specific actions. Here we show that firing rates of a majority of dACC neurons in a population studied in an eight-option variably rew ...[more]